A horde of coins found in Transylvania in 1713 contained several unlike other Roman coins in style and make, with enigmatic features including bungled legends and historically mixed motifs. The four ...

Why so many Roman coin hoards end up being buried and never found has baffled archaeologists for decades. A major new study has shown that the non-recovery of these hoarded treasures was caused by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hundreds of Roman-era gold and silver coins were found in a field outside a village in the Netherlands, officials announced this ...

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It’s not every day that a jaunt with a metal detector turns up something truly revelatory. One might expect to find a vintage engagement ring or a necklace lost to time—but a set of over a thousand ...

A study of gold coins from different moments of the Roman Empire has revealed the thriving economy at the time of minting. To reach this conclusion, researchers brought three Roman coins to the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists have discovered a hoard of gold Roman coins dating back ...

Workers lifting a living room floor in a quiet French village expected dust and concrete, not a buried fortune. Instead, they exposed three ceramic jars packed with an estimated 40,000 Roman coins, a ...

Under an ordinary living room, a family home in northeastern France concealed an extraordinary secret: three buried jars packed with an estimated 40,000 Roman coins that had not seen daylight for ...